The festival teams up with Africa is/in the Future for a film night around this year’ theme from the Mothership and its echoes with Afrofuturism. Introduced by Marie Umuhoza, two films will be presented: I FELT IT INSIDE OF (ME) by the young Brussels director Ange Mukunde (2025), and The Last Angel of History by John Akomfrah (1996). Guided by Umuhoza, the public will be offered philosophical context and tools to decipher the symbolics of Afrofuturist referred to in these movies.
Africa is/in the Future explores contemporary Afro-diasporic and African futurology in Brussels. It was launched in 2016 by Dany Ben Félix and Guillaume Maupin at Cinéma Nova as a programme of African science fiction films and has since quickly become an unmissable multidisciplinary initiative in Brussels. Since 2023, Marie Umuhoza, artistic director of the festival, and Mylène Lauzon, director of La Bellone, designed AI/ITF specifically with the performing arts in mind and developed it within La Bellone.
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I FELT IT INSIDE OF (ME)
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I FELT IT INSIDE OF (ME) by Ange Mukunde is an inner and outer dialogue about how the night(life) and its cultures affect queer identities.
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The Last Angel of History
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The Last Angel of History is a sci-fi documentary about Africa, history and memory. Legend has it that in the 1930s itinerant blues man Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in order to play the blues. What Johnson got in return for his soul was a black secret: technology which would produce the history of black music. 200 years into the future another itinerant figure, the Data Thief, sells his soul for the knowledge of his future. (source: Sabzian) The movie is featuring Afrofuturist key figures such as Samuel R. Delaney and Octavia Butler.
Directed by John Akomfrah Produced by Black Audio Film Collective (in association with Channel Four Television and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) Camera David Scott Music Trevor Mathison Editor Justin Amsden Distributed by Icarus Films Featuring George Clinton, Nichelle Nichols, Derrick May, Juan Atkins, DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Greg Tate, Kodwo Eshun, Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, Ishmael Reed, Bernard A. Harris Jr
